Re: -Xlinker and LDFLAGS

[Greg Hudson]

>> This means that emacs has to be treated differently from other
>> packages; for instance, you can't use an LDFLAGS value such as
>> -Wl,-R/thing/to/add/to/run/path.

> Why do you need the -Wl in practice?

        egyptian-gods% rpm -q redhat-release
        redhat-release-6.2-1
        egyptian-gods% touch foo.c
        egyptian-gods% cc -c foo.c
        egyptian-gods% cc -R/tmp foo.o
        cc: unrecognized option `-R/tmp'
        egyptian-gods% cc -v
        Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
        gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)

(gcc 2.95 19990728 also doesn't seem to understand -R.)